What Happens Outside "Active Hours?"
While looking at the features and functionality of autopatch, I'm being asked for more detailed information on behaviors related to "Active Hours", but more specifically what happens outside of active hours. (Please let me know if additional information is required to answer this) Example: It's 21:30p, the device active hours are being automatically set (05:00a to 20:00p) and a quality update is discovered and installed that requires a reboot to complete. if I'm still interacting with the host, will it try and reboot because its technically outside of active hours? Will it provide a warning or option to pause, reschedule, etc? What is the expected behavior? Does the windows host recognize that activity is occurring and wait until a specific point in time outside of active hours? How best can I explain what happens outside of active hours to the rest of the team so they will better understand expected behaviors? Thank you in advance,
windows updates not working
This morning when I opened my laptop it sent me to Bitlocker recovery. Since then several apps aren't working properly or won't open and when I try to Do my windows updates, the system acts like it's going to do it it shuts down and turns right back on and the box comes up that says do you want to do your updates now it's just a continuous process that never stops. I contacted Windows help chat and they did nothing for me besides the fact they were super slow and told me I needed to request help through the windows insider program. Can someone help me please turn my laptop off.Define Patch Approvals in WSUS but pull patches from Windows Update (Internet)
We currently use WSUS to distribute Microsoft patches and also use Solarwinds Patch Manager to push 3rd party patches into WSUS. This allows us to fully patch an endpoint with all MS and 3rd party software patches via Windows Update Agent/WSUS. We now have a fleet of laptops connected back to our Datacenter via a VPN and they are consuming a lot of bandwith during patching cycles. We have the following challanges: We do use some throttling on BITS/Delivery opitmization but have had mixed results We have MECM but don't use Cloud Management gatway as was deemed too expensive. we have not moved patching to MECM yet. If we use Windows Update for Business we cannot patch 3rd party updates and loose some control around pilot groups and reporting in our estimation Q: So is there a way for us to continue to define the approved patches/metadata via WSUS but have the system pull the patches files from the internet (Windows Update) source? Perhaps this is possible with MECM?
"Windows Update" settings page is missing and everything is greyed out.
>Delivery Optimization it looks like this, i was fixing my bits cuz it won't start & wuauserv service missing by downloading new windows .iso 23H2 (22631.2361), last thing i did was running DISM before installing with .iso , after that every services related to update (wuauserv, bits, cryptsvc, & appidsvc) is fixed but it came with new problems like i listed above.
Problems with surface go 1st gen
I was normally trying to update my beautiful surface go 1st gen when other than the insider previews of Windows 11 there is a failed attempt to update the "Surface HIDClass-5/29/2018-2.3.139.0" driver that delivers an install error " 0x8007012a", I tried retrying the update and using the windows update troubleshoot but nothing worked, does anyone have a fix for this?
Laptop blue screening since last windows updates KB5006670
Been working on an issue with around 5 laptops blue screening that started happening after the last windows updates, Windows update KB5006670 the worrying thing is I've rebuilt the laptops but the same is happening. I think I have narrowed the issue down to the WiFi / Network drivers, but I can find a fix anywhere. I’ve updated the Bios and all intel drivers but the same happens, also rolled back, I’ve got some stability when I disable the WIFI and just use a ethernet cable, as soon as I swap the laptop blue screens. This is happening on all three model of laptops we have Dell Latitudes 7280, 7290 (out of Warranty) and the newer 5420 (in warranty). Does anyone have any suggestions or is this a know issues you have, or also have and are still working on? Any help would be gratefully received.
